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yeah, I've experienced that what I've just seen here, just hadn't seen this movie yet. Thanks for posting it UBM.Have you picked up that Funkadelic Toys yet? And the U.S. music with Funkadelic from 1972 is cool too.

I had the opportunity of managing 247-Spyz when they first started out in 1985 or so. I didn't know what to do with them so I turned them down. Still regret that. I'm making up for it these days, though.

Great find, UBM. Just this past weekend I was re-buying my Fishbone records. Wonderful, idiosyncratic band. It makes no sense that they never broke bigger other than stupid record companies not knowing how to sell them.

I wonder if, for new black rockers, internet promotion and distribution will change things.

It's not just "a white thing," either. I recall a would-have-been-funny-if-it-hadn't-been-sad moment when a black former co-worker referred to Hendrix as "white boy music" ("Well, he play like a white boy!" "No, the white boys keep trying to play like HIM!"), and remain annoyed that bands like Living Color and The Good Guys couldn't get record executives and audiences of either ethnicity to take them seriously for long. Poor Body Count got nailed as a rap band even though they displayed Ice-T's fondness for Sabbath-style metal; Ice himself had a song on Body Count's first album blasting the whole "Don't they know rock's just for whites?" thing. And yet...